Questões de Inglês - Reading/Writing

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A wave of anger is sweeping the cities of the world.

  The protests have many different origins. In Brazil people rose up against bus fares, in Turkey against a building project. Indonesians have rejected higher fuel prices. In the euro zone they march against austerity, and the Arab spring has become a perma-protest against pretty much everything.

  Yet just as in 1848, 1968 and 1989, when people also found a collective voice, the demonstrators have much in common. In one country after another, protesters have risen up with bewildering speed. They tend to be ordinary, middle-class people, not lobbies with lists of demands. Their mix of revelry and rage condemns the corruption, inefficiency and arrogance of the folk in charge.

  Nobody can know how 2013 will change the world – if at all. In 1989 the Soviet empire teetered and fell. But Marx’s belief that 1848 was the first wave of a proletarian revolution was confounded by decades of flourishing capitalism and 1968 did more to change sex than politics. Even now, though, the inchoate significance of 2013 is discernible. And for politicians who want to peddle the same old stuff, news is not good.

The Economist, June 29, 2013. Adaptado.

[1]  Girl with a Pearl Earring is a quiet movie about things not said, opportunities not taken,

potentials not realized, lips unkissed. All of these elements are guessed at by the filmmakers as they

regard a painting made in about 1665 by Johannes Vermeer. The painting shows a young woman

[4] looking at us over her left shoulder. She wears a simple blue headband, a modest smock and a pearl

earring. Her red lips are slightly parted. Is she smiling?

      Not much is known about Vermeer, who left about 35 paintings. Nothing is known about his

[7] model. You can hear that it was his daughter, a neighbor, a tradeswoman, but not his lover, because

Vermeer’s household was under the iron rule of his mother-in-law, who was vigilant as a hawk. The

painting has become as intriguing in its modest way as the Mona Lisa. The girl’s face turned toward

[10] us from centuries ago demands that we ask, “Who was she? What was she thinking? What was the artist

thinking about her?”

      Tracy Chevalier’s novel speculating about the painting has now been filmed by Peter Webber,

[13] who cast Scarlett Johansson as the girl and Colin Firth as Vermeer. The girl’s name is Griet, according

to this story. She lives nearby and is sent by her blind father to work in Vermeer’s house.

Roger Ebert. Review of girl with a pearl earring. Internet: (adapted).

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